Comments on: What Ben Stein Thinks Bush Should Do

It Is Time For Rumsfeld To Go And For The President To Admit That Iraq Is A Mess, Says Stein

[randolf44]

Bush is too arrogant with power to ever admit the made a mistake in hiring Rummy or anyone else. The pretext of changing strategies is simply a pre-election ploy to win votes. See what he does after the election....NOTHING!

[dickhunter]

If President Bush listens at all to the God he professes to believe in, he would follow Ben Stein's suggestion to confess, change his ways, and follow some sensible guidance!

We in Hawai'i are fortunate enough to live as far from Washington as possible (and still have zip codes and an area code!) - but we still feel the pain of the families who have sacrificed their sons, husbands, and lovers for this terrible blot on our nation's honor and reputation! aloha to all -

[dickhunter]

If President Bush listens at all to the God he professes to believe in, he would follow Ben Stein's suggestion to confess, change his ways, and follow some sensible guidance!

We in Hawai'i are fortunate enough to live as far from Washington as possible (and still have zip codes and an area code!) - but we still feel the pain of the families who have sacrificed their sons, husbands, and lovers for this terrible blot on our nation's honor and reputation! aloha to all -

[sewtoni]

I have never been a fan of Ben Stein's. Uncharacteristically, I stopped to hear his editorial this week and I was brought to tears at the message he was offering to our President and our nation. Mr. Stein said the only thing that President Bush can and should say at this time. I pray the entire Administration was watching CBS Sunday Morning yesterday. In case Mr. Bush didn't see the broadcast for himself I called The White House this morning and suggested that he should. Thank you Ben Stein from a lifetime liberal.

[cmechec]

The measure of a man's greatness is not in how much power he exerts over others, but in the courage to face himself honestly and those he has harmed, and say, "I was wrong."

Alas, this president has no such courage.

An even greater man would add, "Let me fix this."

Alas again.

Should Mr. Bush take up Mr. Stein's suggestion and read such a speech, he might go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. Instead, he's going down in flames.

Alas, he's taking us with him.

[gmond]

Needed some filler?

[edward troup]

I always thought Ben was funny in the eye drops ad he was a gas and on the comedy channel
the Ben steines money was informative and a gas .
and a great game show
but in politics Ben really blows big chunks not only now but in the nixon years and ford as well.

[bellal-2009]

Ben Stein, You offer nothing, run along.

[tom_gwynn]

If this wasn't so pathetic it would be truly amusing. After six years of calling Democrats everything from wimps to unpatriotic to traitors to cut-and-runners Stein wants to use us to cover Bush's bleeding behind with a flag of bipartisanship? Sorry, Ben, that train left the station a long time ago. After six years of being lied to by this Administration and its congressional cronies (beginning with his promise to be a 'uniter and not a divider') six years of watching this president use the Constitution as his personal toilet paper, six years of having right-wing extremist judges forced down our throats with threats and bullying... in short after six years of dishonest, corrupt, *incompetent* misrule, Bush and the Republican party have used up all their credit with us. You've had your fun, but now the bill is coming due. Still, Stein isn't wrong in saying bold presidential action could turn this around. He just has the speech wrong. "...We are making more terrorists than we destroy. "Quagmire" comes sadly to mind. It is clear that change must be made. Therefore, it has become my duty to offer the resignations of both myself and VP Cheney, being the two men most responsible for this stain upon America's honor.%u201D That, I believe, could start things afresh. Admittedly, to do this Bush would need three things he sadly lacks, these being a sense of honor, responsibly and duty. So it%u2019s not very likely and we don%u2019t expect it.

There are a couple of problems with the speech... namely Bush will never admit to making a mistake and Bush actually does believe he has a pipeline to God.

Both of those reasons are why we're still in Iraq. He honestly thinks he's doing God's work over there.